Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights - Report 6 of 2021

1 These are the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD); the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW); the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT); the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC); and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). [...] The right to freedom of movement includes the right to enter, remain in, or return to one's own country.10 The UN Human Rights Committee has stated that the right of a person to enter his or her own country 'recognizes the special relationship of a person to that country'.11 The reference to a person's 'own country' is not restricted to countries with which the person has the formal status of citi. [...] 1.25 As such, further information is required to assess the compatibility of this measure with the right to protection of the family and the rights of the child, in particular: (a) whether setting a cap on the number of parent and other family visas seeks to achieve a legitimate objective for the purposes of international human rights law; (b) whether the cap on the number of visas is a reasonable. [...] 1.27 The committee considers that capping the number of parent and other family visas engages and may limit the right to protection of the family and the rights of the child. [...] Regarding the limitation on the right to privacy, the statement of compatibility notes that the information that may be required to be obtained from a customer is limited to the minimum amount of information that is reasonably necessary to identify a customer; information about the customer's existing carriage services; and information about the customer's proposed use of the prepaid mobile carria.